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water_n	bread_n	lord_n	wine_n	3,679	5	7.3104	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96350	The first centvry of scandalous, malignant priests, made and admitted into benefices by the prelates, in whose hands the ordination of ministers and government of the church hath been. Or, A narration of the causes for which the Parliament hath ordered the sequestration of the benefices of severall ministers complained of before them, for vitiousnesse of life, errors in doctrine, contrary to the articles of our religion, and for practising and pressing superstitious innovations against law, and for malignancy against the Parliament. It is ordered this seventeenth day of November, 1643. by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning printing, that this booke intituled, [The first century of scandalous, malignant priests, &c.] be printed by George Miller.	White, John, 1590-1645.; England and Wales. Parliament. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing W1777; Thomason E76_21; ESTC R19192	42,473	60

to represent the Holy Ghost altered the deske in the Church to a place in the chancell where he was not seene nor heard of many in the Church and hath refused to reade the Act of 21. Iacobi against swearing saying he knew a better meanes to helpe it namely by confession and pennance And hath refused to reade the buriall service at the buriall of some children because they dyed before Baptisme and in visiting the sicke useth to mumble somewhat overthem and then to crosse them upon the face and the fore-head and hath expressed great malignity against the Parliament 84. The Benefice of Richard Duxon Doctour in Divinitie parson of the Parish Church of St. Clement-Danes without Temple-barre London is sequestred for that in his catechising in his said Church he hath taught That children dying after Baptisme are saved by the faith of the God-fathers and God-mothers And spendeth much of his time in gaming for money and useth to sweare by the faith of a Priest before God and upon his salvation and is very superstitious in bowing and cringing to the Altar and practising the late illegall Innovations and compared them that vsed ex tempore prayer and enlarged themselves therein with pertinent expressions to Baals Priests who thought to be heard for their much bauling And neglecting to preach himselfe upon Christmas-day last in the after-noone and finding a very great congregation met to heare M. Evans the Lecturer preach kept the Pulpit and deske himselfe with a strong hand refusing to let the Lecturer preach and openly protested to the congregation that they should have no Sermon then and in the pulpit read a few collects to them and then charged the Church-wardens to drive the congregation out or to shut them in and so inforced the congregation to depart without any Sermon in great discontent And speaking of the present troubles said It had beene a happy thing for the Kingdome if they had made choice of such Parliament-men as they might have trusted without any Puritans And reading in his Church an Ordinance of Parliament for a collection for maimed souldiers to discourage his people from giving to that pious use told them That charitie did begin at home and for his part he thought their own poore had more need of it And hath not onely refused to take the late Protestration but also being desired to lead his people in taking the late Covenant answered openly in the Church before them That he would not lead the people into sinne and yet was a great promoter of the Church-wardens and Sides-men of the said Parish to take the Oath of the late new Canons with himselfe and hath otherwise exprest great malignity against the Parliament and hath extorted excessive fees from his Parishioners for burials viz. twenty shillings for a Sermon when there was none twelve shillings for the use of a black-cloath hanged about the Pulpit at the time of the buriall not being desired and otherwise and hath deserted his cure for six weekes last past before the said sequestration and hath betaken himselfe to the Army of cavaleers raised against the Parliament and was seene in Oxon since in a coloured hat and coat 85. The Benefices of Edward Marten Doctor in Divinity Parson of the Parish Churches of Houghton-Conquest in the county of Bedford and of Dunnington in the county of Cambridge is sequestred for that he usually prayed openly for the Saints and people departed this life and that they may be eased and freed of their paines in Purgatory and hath said that preaching is prophaned when it is in a dining-roome or other place not hallowed by the Bishop and that the Ordinance is prophaned by the place and doth not consecrate the place And that having great yearely revenues did notwithstanding upon the Sabbath-day steale wheatesheaves out of the field in harvest and laid them to his tithe shock and hath not preached since he was Parson of Houghton-Conquest in five yeares not above five Sermons there and hath substituted there in his absence very scandalous and malignant Curates and was a great promoter of the late new Canons and is most unreasonable in adoring of the Altar making five low cursies in his going to it and two at it and then falling downe upon his knees before it with his eyes on a crucifix being in the East window over it And when hee did preach his Subject was mostly in exalting of holy ground and pressing the practise of the said illegall Innovations and he forced divers women that came to be churched to come up to the Altar and there to ducke and kneele unto it and at their comming and going from it and had made his Parishioners not onely to cringe to the said Table and come up to the Rails but also to offer money there unto him holding a bason for the fame purpose on his knees commanding them so to offer their gifts And hath openly preached that the Parliament goeth about in a factious way to erect a new Religion and hath confessed before the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning plundered Ministers that hee had lent and given money to the King to maintaine this unnaturall warre against the Parliament and Kingdome 86. The Benefice of Iames Buck Vicar of the Parish Church of Stradbrocke in the county of Suffolke is sequestred for that he hath preached openly That the Pope is the head of the Church and head of the spiritualty and that there would never be any conformity in the Church till a Patriarch should be above a Bishop a Bishop above a Priest a Priest above a Deacon and the Bishop of Rome above them all And that this is my Body in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper is to be understood in the literall sense and that there is a Transmutation of the bread and wine into the body and bloud of Christ as in John 2. the substance of water is turned into the substance of wine And that the words Doe this are spoken to the Priest to create the body of our Lord affirming the Priest to to have power to create the very body and bloud of Christ and that it is lawfull to invocate Saints and Angels and that Infants dying after Baptisme become Interceders even for their Parents And that auricular Confession to the Priest is absolutely necessary to salvation once a yeare or at least once in a mans life And hath also laboured to maintaine universall grace and that the Church of Rome is as honourable a Church as any in the world And that he useth to make as low obeysance at the mentioning of the Virgin Maries name as he doth at the name Jesus And doth not onely bow thrice at his going and thrice at his returne from the Communion Table set Altar-wise But teacheth That Adoration is due to it when the holy mysteries are absent and that it is as lawfull to worship the Altar as for the woman that touched the hem of his garment to